Improvement in lubricators for steam-engines



E. McCOY.

improvement in Lubricators for Steam-Engines.

No, 130,305, Patented Aug. 6,1872.

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ELIJAE Mooov, oE YPsILANTI, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN LUBIRICATORS FOR STEAM-ENGINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,305, dated August 6, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIJAH MGGOY, of Ypsilanti, in the county of Washtenaw and in the State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Lubricator for Cylinders; `and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had .to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

rI he nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a steamcylinder lubricator, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, which represents a side elevation of my invention.

A represents the vessel in which the oil is contained, and from the bottom of which a pipe, B, leads to the steam-chest. This pipe is, at a suitable point, provided with a globe or reservoir, C. Between the vessel A and the globe or reservoir C is a stop-cock, D, in the pipe B, and in the same pipe, between the globe and the steam-chest, is another stopcock, E. A steam-pipe, G, passes from the dome or boiler down through the vessel and connects with the oil-pipe B at the glove or reservoir C, or at any point between the same and the valve D. In the steampipe Gr,- after it leaves the vessel A, is a stop-cock, J. One of these oilers is to be placed on each side of the smoke-arch directly opposite the cylin,

ders, and the various stopcocks should be so connected with levers or rods that they can be operated simultaneously by a single rod in the engineers cab. When the en gine is working the stop-cocks E and J are closed and the stop-cock D opened, allowing the oil to pass into the globe or reservoir C. The steam being in the pipe G prevents the oil from congealing in cold weather in the vessel A. When the cylinder is to be oiled the stop-cocks E and J are opened and D closed. Steam passing from the boiler or dome through the pipe G forces the oil out of the globe or reservoir C into the cylinder.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the vessel A, oil-pipe B with reservoir C and stop-cocks D E., and the steam-pipe G with the stop-cock J, all constructed and arranged substantially as and for thepurposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set lny hand this 28th day of June, 1872.

Y ELIJAH MGCOY.

Witnesses:

E. P. ALLEN, ALBERT GROVE. 

